Improvement in corn-husking machines



T. BURGESS; Corn Husker.

No.']04.693. Patented Jun 28, 1870.

N. PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON B C Toall whom, it may concerns,

- Be t known that I, THOMAS J BURGESS, of Ron-- 'rHo MAsJ. BURGESS; or RONDOUT, NEW roan.

' Letters Patent No. 104,693, dated June 28,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HU$KING-;MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

clout, in the countyof Ulster and-State of New York, have inventedcertain-newl and useful Improvements in Corn-husking Machines and I do hereby declare that 'the following is a} full, clear, and exact description of, the same,'reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing makinga-part of this specification, "and lllj\\'hl0ll m i Figure l is a plan view of a corn-bushing machine, constr rcted according to my invention. F gure 2 is an end view and a'partial section of the same. r

The object of this inventionis to provide a cheap, s mple, and eflicient machine for removing the 'husks,

&c.-,frorn cars'of corn without the, use of the'Indiarnbh'errolls commonly employed in machinery for such xpurpose.

It consists in the combination of two cylinders, hav; ing'ronghenedflor toothed surfaces with each other,

and with the supporting frame-work of a corn-husking machine in such manner that the said, cylinders are i caused to-teara nd remove from the ears the husks sl ltl'QllIldlllg the sameflw'hen such ears are properly bresented to therollsQ v The invention furtherlconsists in vthe combination with the parts just specified of twoosnpplemental rolls, one, fnrnished' witlihcircurnferential series'of radial teeth, and .theother with peripherical grooves, by which, after the removal of the husks, the silk inay he effectually detached from the 631's, thereby bringing them into-a perfectly, clean condition. r {The invention further consists in arranging the supplemental rollersin such rel'ationwith the toothed or roughened husking-cylinder, and with anppening in the side of the frame that theears deprivedof their husks and silk may fall from the bushing-cylinder onto the delivery-rollers, withtheir longitudinal axesparallel with the axes of said rollers, and be automatically delivered from theapparatus,

To" enable others to understand the construction and operation of 7 my inventioml will proceed to describe it withreference tothe drawing, 7

A represents the main onsuppbrting-frameof the machine,'provided with suitable hearings, which re ccive the journals of the two cylinders, B, arranged one above the'othcr.

These: cylinders are geared together by spurwheels, as shown in figs. land 2. One of them has a crank,

(Lyon one end of its: shaft, so ,that, by'turningthis crank, a rotary motion may be given tob'oth cylinders in the direction indicated by the arrows in fig. 2.

; Figure-3 is a vertical transverse section of the same,

erably by punching or indenting the sheet metal fromthe inner side. Also, supported in hearings'oryonr rial-boxes in the frameA, are two supplemental. rollers, G D, placed parallel with each other, but each with oneend lower than the other, so that the two 'are-hroughtinto an oblique position withrefereuce to the cylinders 13. One of these, D, is provided with a skew-gear, l), which gears into'the spur-wheel of one of the cylinders, B, and is provided with" several cir cumferential series of short radial teeth,c.' The other roller, v(J has agroove, 6, formed in it opposite each of the series of teeth 0, on the roller D, as will'hel seen by reference to fig. .1-. Formed in the side of the frame, at and over the lower ends-of the rollers G D,

is an outlet-opening, E.

In using the-machine the cylinders B are rotated either by the crank a, or by a band-pulley substituted in itsplace, and the nnhusked corn is placed in the cavity formed between the forward sides of the cylinder, and in contactwith the'same. v I

lhe rasping and tearing action of the roughened surfaces of the cylinders quickly detaches the husks, and carries the latter between the cylinders and away from theear; this being done the ear is dropped upon the supplemental rollers O D, which, from their structure,.previouslyherein set'for'th, catch the silk'from the ear, and, carrying it downward. between them, discharge it vunderneath the machine. The cars thus freed from extraneous material move gradually downward in the hollow between the two inclined rollers,

rasping or roughened cylinders B, and the opening E,

in the frame A, whereby the ears,,after leaving the cylinders, and being deprived of h-usks and silk, are caused to fall parallel with the axes of said rollers, and,

move automatically along them to the discharge-opening, substantially as herein shown and described. y The combination of the rollers D, furnished with circumferential series of teeth, the r'ollenG, having peripherical grooves, the two roughened or rasping ylinders B, and the frame A, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. l

THOMAS J. BURGESS. Witnesses:

' FRED. Harms,

Hnnnir PALMER. 

